CHX combines the latest research in the fields of cognition and neuroscience - led by CHX co-founder Chris who is professor at both the University of Kent and the University of Oxford - with the expert facilitation and application delivered by CHX’s team of proven and successful business leaders and coaches led by co-founder Damien. Credibility is a key lever in programme success.
CHX combines the latest research in the fields of cognition and neuroscience - led by CHX co-founder Chris who is professor at both the University of Kent and the University of Oxford - with the expert facilitation and application delivered by CHX’s team of proven and successful business leaders and coaches led by co-founder Damien. Credibility is a key lever in programme success.
CHX Performance has rigorously developed its methods, content, tools and services since 2014. The Scientist of Yourself® programmes enable CHX coaches and facilitators to meet individual, team and organisational needs that are continually evolving in the modern, dynamic and demanding business environment. The principal aim is that each participant becomes a ‘Scientist of Yourself®’, creating and owning the changes agreed through the programme.
of senior leadership and management participating in a CHX programmes (across all sectors) attend and complete the entire programme, identifying and committing to change.
Scientist of Yourself® leadership programmes are highly developmental, starting with self-awareness and self-management. In essence, enabling them to be purposeful, inclusive, fair, authentic and empathic, when being this type of leader might otherwise be beyond them a lot of the time.
CHX programmes focus on two core strands: sustainable high performance and leading by how you make others feel. All programmes are tailored to leverage existing leadership development initiatives, or to stand alone. They are fully blended with online learning, peer to peer mentoring and facilitated workshops. They can be live, in person, fully virtual or a blend and are typically delivered in cohorts of 8 - 20 over a period of 1 - 6 months.
“I found this an incredibly powerful programme, that gave me new insights and tools that are easy to apply so I can learn how to operate at my best during these crazy times. Kudos to the CHX team for making it so easy to absorb such a wealth of knowledge.”
Senior Partner, Korn Ferry
“I could not recommend this programme more highly. CHX brought us together, they challenged us, they supported us, and they left us feeling hopeful. And when you read the media, look at the data and consider the human cost of work right now, it is hard to argue that we could have made a better investment.”
Chairman, Vala Capital
“It’s literally a breakthrough. I can’t tell you the difference it is making already. To have that level of openness and seeing the team really open up should not be underestimated. I have no developmental feedback as it is transformational and is really helping the team bond and value themselves.”
Group Talent Director, TalkTalk
The ICF accredited Scientist of Yourself® coaching supports those for whom the challenges faced are making things feel out of balance or even overwhelming. McKinsey’s 2021 report indicates that between 38% - 49% of senior leaders feel burned out and tackling this challenge requires specific focus by the individual on themselves as a prerequisite to being able to look outwards at their people.
Scientist of Yourself® coaching typically delivers the greatest impact over five or six sessions. The coachee will develop awareness of their capacity to lead and in doing so develop understanding and management of their mood and emotion. The sessions employ the 4R Model (1) as the central framework and are supported with online, modular learning where appropriate, with each client receiving a tailored programme to gain insights, strategies and practical tools to manage their capacity for leadership and performance.
1. Sustainability (2022) The 4R Model of Mood and Emotion for Sustainable Mental Health in Organisational Settings
“I worked with CHX Performance, during a very busy time at work. They provided some incredibly useful insight on how we as humans tend to operate and enabled me to identify some of my behavioural patterns very clearly and most remarkably in a very limited period of time. They enabled me to get back to a state of mind where effectively my productivity was back to what it was, but only through building my self confidence again. A very timely and efficient intervention. I could not recommend CHX Performance highly enough.”
Senior Leader, UK Green Tech
“CHX challenged me to be more intentional and thoughtful about my mood, attitude and overall mentality as I transitioned into the partner role. The science behind CHX’s coaching particularly resonated with me, as we together tackled these tricky emotions— from an educated perspective. We dove into both the “how” and the “why” of my emotional state, and I left our discussions with several concrete tips and tricks for how to deal with the inevitable feelings of tension, anxiety and fatigue that are commonplace in my profession. I highly recommend CHX coaching and look forward to continued dealings with them.”
US Partner in Tier 1, Global Law
“CHX coaching was a timely and efficient intervention. The demands of my global role were becoming unsustainable. I was close to exhaustion and, at best, functioning and not producing what I am capable of. CHX highlighted the biological stress I was putting myself under and, in turn, the hyper arousal that I was operating with. Not good for me and not for my colleagues and team. The outcome was successfully finding a new role and an ongoing commitment to paying attention to the habits and routines we discussed, that allow me to work at high performance in a sustainable way. I recommend them wholeheartedly.”
C-suite, Tier 1 Global Professional Services
CHX are experts in the biology of business, and starting with our universal biological needs as human beings, are able to empower individuals and groups to apply learning and discussion in the context of their differentiated needs.
Scientist of Yourself® programmes provide World-leading content, applied through highly interactive people-centric frameworks that deliver meaningful change into the heart of the organisation.
Participants spend some time working alone in the bespoke, on-demand, virtual learning environment but their colleagues are the magic ingredient - the commitment device. Working together with the proprietary diagnostic MoJo app and other Scientist of Yourself® frameworks, each participant can share real time graphical mood data, developing mastery of how they are doing and what their potential is to sustain or improve how they are doing. This gives leaders granular detail on their performance, likely impact on their teams and their ability to make unbiased decisions.
McKinsey reported in 2021 that the loss of productivity as a result of anxiety and depression, two common mental health disorders that stem from dysfunctional mood and emotion, costs the global economy $1 trillion each year. Central to CHX programmes is that mood and emotion data and what it is telling us, are perhaps the most important yet most ignored performance development opportunity available to us.
In viewing ‘mental health’ as ‘ill health’ and thus a problem to be managed, we miss the chance to prevent poor mental health and the opportunity to explore the aspiration of good mental health as the foundation for sustainable high performance. Because of this, the ‘withdrawal - disengage - depart/burnout’ cycle is challenging business like never before.
